Collectivization

After the communist revolution in 1917, monumental transformations influenced the political and social culture in the Soviet Union. Powerful notions of a better future through communism and the end of the oppressive Tsarist rule excited people. Vladimir Lenin and other

The propaganda captioned, “The worker has pulled the world out of darkness and illuminated it with the light of the enlightenment,” is a poster depicting the Soviet Union’s attempt to draw in the working class through literacy and education. During

The propaganda piece that I picked to write about depicts the advancements in agricultural technology in the Soviet Union during the 1930’s, and shows the benefits of collectivization. As the Soviet Union was industrializing their society, new technology was needed

Between 1928 and 1932, the Soviet Union, under the direction of Joseph Stalin, embarked on its first 5-Year Plan (Kranking, February 24, 2017). One of the principal goals focused on rapid industrialization and the integration of the entire able-body Russian workforce